Word: meagerness
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...Christian homes the Sunday movie does a more thorough job." In a large part of the world, the State has taken over the Sunday School's function of ABC-teaching. As for religious instruction, "the average Sunday School is taught by an untrained staff; its equipment is woefully meager; the curriculum is neither scientifically sound, comprehensive, nor sufficiently centred in the child's experience; the textbooks are biased in attitude and limited in scope; the pupils' attendance is haphazard, and the time spent by the average child in the average Protestant Sunday School is something less than...
...your finger on the crux of the matter when you state that the University contribution "is very meager if non-existent." You state "it is obvious that the entire annual income of the Buckley fund and the Cambridge Aid was not used." I agree if Cambridge Aid (allocated by the Administration from general funds for Cambridge students) amounts to any substantial sum. But if the source for the latter is the Buckley fund, the only ethical way out would be to abolish the term Cambridge Aid and identify all the money distributed with the Buckley fund or at least that...
...fund. This means that at least four thousand dollars are available for scholarships for upperclassmen and graduates. In addition, the catalogue lists a Cambridge fund for the same purpose. Ostensibly the University contributes to this fund but an examination of the records would probably show that this is very meager if not nonexistent. From 1929 to 1932 as few as seven students, including both upperclassmen and graduate students, received aids and as many as nineteen. The average amount received by these students was two hundred dollars regardless of group rating and evidence of high scholarship. From these facts...
...long days in bed, but when they turn to the library which is provided for them they find only a few dog-eared detective stories and stuffy novels. Compared to the impressive collections of books at college infirmaries like that of Dartmouth, the facilities offered Harvard men appear meager indeed...
...Varsity swordsmen on the afternoon of November 26, he will be faced with the problem of re-vamping his entire fencing organization to meet with the new rules of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association. It is not that his men won't qualify or that there is an unusually meager amount of good material, but rather that the heads of the Intercollegiate Fencing Association have decided to add another man to the regulation teams, and to change the system of rating...